A Nuyorican Vision - Thoughts in Motion

Although, this originally started as a video blog it is more like a written blog. I guess I must be camera shy...LOL. I was never into writing my words in a blog and found video blogging so much more interesting. So it amazes me that this site has become a written blog for me.

Again, I am looking at my life and reflecting. Just for the record, I live it as well. But I am known for having a reflective attitude so for those that don't know me, I do apologize. Love was the theme of today. A friend came to me today and told me that her husband and her were separating. And I wondered how does love turn to separation? Unfortunately, I know many married couples who are living together in loveless relationships, too many. So as I read her instant message, I wonder when did it happened and how. Did the lines of communication stop? It had to, because communication is key to a relationship. And if we all know this, why do we allow it to happen? Was the catalyst maybe unfulfilled dreams or aspirations? What causes us to stop being "in love?"

After speaking to her, I started to think about my past relationships. Some of my ex-boyfriends are good friends today. But I never said I loved them because I honestly did not. And this thought brought me to my recent heartache. Do I love him? No. But I saw the possibility of loving him. That thought was a surprise. I never realized that I saw a possibility to love a person, really love a person. This made me wonder were all of these loveless or "not in love anymore" relationship once built on the possibility of loving the person and not really loving them? And what is love exacty? Many have defined it but who really knows.

So with this thought I leave this post with the definition that I love the most and one of my favorites from the Bible.

1 Corinthians 13

Love

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.